This (and the live tweeting) was fascinating. Thank you for sharing it with us.
My birthday present from work last month was a homebrew kit, which I plan to get going as soon as I work out how to get it home from work.
I had only thought about using the brew kits, like the one that came with the equipment, I hadn't even considered working from raw ingredients. I think I may have to work my way up to that...
Since a colleague is already making wine and about to start producing cider, we may have some fun office parties to come. :)

I got into bed around 2300 last night. Anne followed a few minutes later, and was asleep a few minutes after that. I stayed awake reading until about 130, which is something I’ve been doing the last couple of weeks. I can’t fall asleep before 130, no matter how hard I try, so rather than fight i...

I was so pleased with my leafy scarf design inspired by an interesting skein of Ripples Crafts yarn that I took the finished object for a walk in the park in this lovely sunny weather. You can buy the pattern for the scarf here.